The Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) in Basel, Switzerland, is a world-class biomedical research institute with a twofold mission — understanding the molecular mechanisms of health and disease, and training early career scientists. The institute has an international staff of about 330 people and 19 research groups, whose main areas of focus are neurobiology, genome regulation and multicellular systems. Named after Friedrich Miescher, the Swiss biochemist who discovered nucleic acids, the FMI is affiliated with the University of Basel and the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research.